Place marker souvenir



June 6, L, CAR PLACE MARKER SOUVENIR Filed Nov. 16-, 1946 IN VEN TOR.

L ENA CARDILLO Patented June 6, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PLACE MARKER SOUVENIR Lena Cardillo, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application November 16, 1916, Serial No. 710,296

4 Claims.

This invention relates to a souvenir or momento with which is associated a place marker or card bearing an appropriate legend including an indicated space in which may be written the name or names of guests to be seated in assigned places at a banquet or other social affair.

The object of the invention is to provide a place marker souvenir of the character described which will be attractive and distinctive and which may be manufactured at a low cost. An allied object of the invention concerns the method of cheaply fabricating the major components of the novel souvenir, as will be fully described herein.

For the attainment of the foregoing and such other objects of invention as may appear or be pointed out herein I have shown an embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the novel place marked souvenir;

Figure 2 is a plan View of the blank employed in forming one of the major component parts of the souvenir, also showing it in partially folded condition; I

Figure 3 is likewise a plan view of the folded blank of Figure 2, and showing it in a further folded or progressed condition;

Figure 4 is a plan view of the fully folded blank, prior to being cut, as will be described; and

Figure 5 is a plan view of the blank of Figures 2, 3 and 4 of the said major component in its completed but unfolded condition.

The novel place marker souvenir is in the form of a miniature parasol comprising a folded canopy I and a staff 2. The staff is made of light material, such as a solid piece of wood, plastic or the like, or it may be made of longitudinallyspiraled sheet material such as paper, paper board, flexible plastic sheet material or the like, formed into a rod. Staff 2 is then finished iby winding about it a material, such as cellophane, Scotch tape or the like, having a high gloss surface, or by coatin it with wax or other smooth surfacing material.

The canopy l is then affixed to the finished staff 2 near one end thereof in a position to leave a length 3 of the staff exposed above the upper end of the canopy. The canopy l is made of thin flexible sheet material, such as paper, cellophane or other plastic sheet, and comprises, in the preferred form, an outer sheet 4 and an inner sheet 5. Both sheets are similar in most respects and have folds or creases 6 formed in the respective sheets, as will be described in connection with the fabrication of the canopy sheets. Outer canopy 4 and inner canopy 5 are fabricated in a similar manner, as Will now be described with reference to the outer canopy.

A square sheet I of cellophane for example (Figure 2), is folded on a diagonal 8 thereof to form a right-angle triangle, which is itself divided by the other diagonal i! into two right triangles 9 and H]. The right-angle triangle folded blank is then folded on the said diagonal II to form the folded triangle Hi. If the isosceles triangle ill were unfolded, the blank will be found to have four creases originating at point 12. Isosceles-triangle folded blank I U (see Figure 3), is then folded in half on the medial line l3 to-form right-angle triangle 54. If the latter were unfolded the blank would now be found to have eight creases all originating at point I2. Right-angle folded blank it is now folded over to align its side I3 with the hypotenuse 15 to form the folded blank 16. If this were unfolded the blank would show sixteen creases originat-v ing at I2.

Folded blank 15 (see Figure 4) is then folded to align its side I! with the side 15 to form the folded blank 18. If this were unfolded the blank would show thirty-two creases originating at 12. Folded blank 18 is cut approximately on the line I9 and also on a line 29 close to the point I2. If the folded and cut blank l8 were unfolded and flattened out it would appear as in Figure 5, from which it will be seen that the outer canopy sheet 4 (or it might be the inner canopy sheet) has a periphery which, although formed of straight lines 2!, approximates a perfect circle, that a small aperture 22 now appears at the center (corner l2 in Figure 4) and that thirty-two crease lines 6 extend radially from aperture 22.

In forming the canopy l of Figure 1, the out folded blank 18 (Figure 4) is opened up but not spread out fiat. The circular-shaped, creased and apertured outer canopy sheet 4 is placed over or in superposed relation to the inner canopy sheet 5 (similarly formed) not necessarily with their creases coinciding. The finished stafl? 2 is then inserted through the center aperture 22 of the inner and outer canopy sheets, and, holding the top or apex pinched tightly against the staff, the canopy sheets are compressed or bunched together, the sheets foldin along the previous creases and gathered together to simulate the canopy or shade of a parasol. The inner (folded or creased) canopy 5 gives fullness and. body to the two canopies, as clearly seen in Figure 1. Canopy I is then affixed to staff 2 by a. piece of adhesive tape 23 at its upper apertured end. The aperture 28 in the place card 25, Figure 1, and aperture 22 in the canopy sheets 4 (Figure 5) and 5 are substantially the diameter of staff 2. The smooth surface of staff 2, mentioned above, facilitates the passing of the staff through the apertures of the canopies and the place card.

The outer edges of canopy sheets 4, 5 may be left plain (as in Figure 5) or they may be scalloped as shown in Figure 1, at 24. Preferably the canopy sheets, especially the outer sheet 4, are made of translucent material, and of different tones, producing a pleasing and attractive appearance.

The place card 25, hearing appropriate legend 26 including a line 2'? for the name or names of the guests, and having an aperture 28 at one corner thereof, is then slipped on the staff 2. For the purpose of providing a stop at the end of the staff and to further simulate a parasol, or rather, the ornate handle thereof, a short piece of fancy ribbon is folded to form a loop 29 and the ends secured to the staff by a piece of Scotch tape 36.

In the above description, the invention has been disclosed merely by Way of example and in preferred manner; but obviously many 'variations and modifications may be made therein which will still be comprised within its spirit. It is to be understood, therefore, that the invention is not limited to any specific form or manner of practicing same, except in so far as such limitations are specified in the appended claims.

Iclaim:

1. A souvenir place marker comprising a place card having an aperture at one corner thereof, a staff of wood or the like, covered by cellophane to present a high-gloss surface, inserted through the card aperture, a canopy comprised of an outer sheet of translucent material of approximately circular outline having a central aperture and a plurality of equi-spaced radial creases origi nating at said aperture, and a similar inner sheet, said outer and inner sheets being of different colors and pressed together in superposed relation to simulate the closed canopy of a parasol and disposed on the said stafi with a, predetermined length of the stafi extending above the apertured apex of the canopy to simulate the tip of the parasol, said apex being secured to the staff by a piece of adhesive tape, and a piece of ribbon the ends of which are brought together to form a, loop and secured to the end of the stafi to simulate the handle of the parasol and to serve as a stop preventing separation of the said place card from the stafi.

2. A souvenir place marker comprising a place card having an aperture, a staif having a highgloss surface inserted through the card aperture, a canopy comprised of an outer sheet of approximately circular outline having a central aperture and a plurality of equi-spaced radial creases originating at said aperture, and a similar inner sheet, said outer and inner sheets being of different colors and pressed together in superposed relation to simulate the closed canopy of a parasol and secured on the said staff with a predetermined length of the staff extending above the apertured apex of the canopy to simulate the tip of the parasol, and a piece of ribbon the ends of which are brought together to form a loop and secured by adhesive tape to the end of the staff to simulate the handle of the parasol and to serve as a stop preventing separation of the said place card from the stafi.

3. A souvenir place marker comprising a place card having an aperture of predetermined diameter, a canopy comprised of an outer sheet having a central aperture of substantially the said diameter of the card aperture and a plurality of equi-spaced radial creases originating at said aperture, and a similar inner sheet, a staff of a diameter substantially that of the apertures of said canopy sheets and place card, said staff having a polished surface to facilitate insertion through said apertures, said outer and inner sheets being pressed together in superposed relation to simulate the closed canopy of a parasol and secured on the said staff with a predetermined length of the staff extending above the apertured apex of the canopy to simulate the tip of the parasol.

4. A souvenir place marker comprising a place card having an aperture, a staff inserted through the card aperture, a canopy comprised of an outer sheet of approximately circular outiine having a central aperture and a plurality of equispaced radial creases originating at said aperture, the edges thereof being scalloped, and a similar inner sheet, said outer and inner sheets being of different colors and pressed together in superposed relation to simulate the closed canopy of a parasol and secured on the said staff by a piece of adhesive tape at the apex of the canopy.

LENA CARDILLO.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

Goldstein Dec. 31, 1918 

